Educação para os meios na Itália

Abstract

The author elaborates a historical tracing in which she shows how the means of communication, in particular television, overlapped each other in the Italian day-to-day life. She discusses the resistance the European humanistic culture has to the offer of the mass cultural industry and lists the main factors that gave the media a prominent place in forming a media culture. She stresses, considering the evident importance of the school concerning itself with forming students and teachers on using the new media, the initiatives to develop the communication/education field that has as their fundamental principle integrating the multiplicity of experiences, a factor that propels any background-forming project.